How to Create Eye-Catching 3D TGIF Text || Illustrator, Cinema 4D & Affinity Photo Tutorial

Learn how to design an impressive 3D TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) text effect in this complete 35-minute tutorial! Perfect for beginners and intermediate designers looking to level up their 3D typography skills.

In this step-by-step guide, you'll discover:
How to create text outlines in Adobe Illustrator
Transforming 2D text into 3D meshes in Cinema 4D
Applying vibrant materials and lighting in Cinema 4D
Compositing the final TGIF flyer in Affinity Photo
Professional techniques for background composition


⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Introduction
00:24 - Text Illustrator
00:44 - Outter Stroke
03:10 - The Square Container Stroke
04:30 - Honeycomb Mesh
09:10 - Date
10:59 - Renaming and Organizing Layers
11:10 - Exporting Layers
12:11 - Importing Ai Layers Into Cinema 4D
13:06 - Extrude Nerbs + Renaming
13:32 - Caps and Rounding + Object Positioning
20:56 - Materials
25:26 - The Lightroom
27:06 - Wrap
27:45 - Rendering
28:21 - Creating Background In Affinity Photo
29:28 - The 3D Text Model
30:28 - Paper Wrap Effects
31:30 - Shadow
31:51 - Bottom Banner Details



🔽 RESOURCES 🔽
C4D Materials + Lightroom + pngs : https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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